Comments on: Family Worship Is A Royal Waste Of Time

By: Jana

Jana — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:33:53 +0000

Thought this might be fun to add to the discussion mix … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLXmKJTGl7Y … 10 min video about how we can be religious sociopaths.

By: Melissa Doddridge

Melissa Doddridge — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:07:30 +0000

Oh, how I love what Jana said, and now I am “getting” what you are meaning. I love that God made me a Mary….and pray that the Marthas in my life will love me like he made me. :)
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By: SarahMae

SarahMae — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:44:13 +0000

Angelia – thank you – the follow-up will be next Sunday :)

By: SarahMae

SarahMae — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:43:46 +0000

Jana – you’re catching on girl… ;)

By: Traci

Traci — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:44:43 +0000

We love God, so we worship Him both out of adoration and obedience, to humble ourselves before our King. To honor Him and come closer to our Lord and Savior.

We have some family worship time at home but not daily, usually 3 times a week. We also have a weekly Prayer and Praise night where a few families get together to sing, share and worship together. Our church is also family-integrated so we worship together, all ages, without segregation according to age. We try to train our kids from infants that it’s good to join in during prayer with the adults, etc. We do have “kids’ lessons” but we, both our family and our church, share a mutual respect towards the importance of children seeing what worship as an adult looks like too. Yes, it can be loud and a little distracting when a small child disrupts the sermon but it usually is short lived and it’s worth it when that same small child asks a question about a sermon, lifts someone’s name in prayer and sees the impact of the Lord in the lives around him.
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By: Jana

Jana — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:38 +0000

Ooh, ooh! I have a guess on the title… Worship is “wasting” our time on our Royal KING of kings! Sometimes we are so caught up on productivity, squeezing so much “stuff” into a day. What a delight to sit at his feet and “waste” time. It is the most beautiful thing and we receive so much in return for the perceived sacrifice of “our” precious time.

By: Angelia

Angelia — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:32:05 +0000

I look forward to your follow up. Seems you got lots of others thinking. Love your super unique personality.

Smiles, Ang

By: Melissa Cummings

Melissa Cummings — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:12:02 +0000

Hmmm… interesting. :)
I like the point someone made (above) about family worship sometimes being worshipped. Our pastor phrases that as worship getting in the way of *worship*. Make sense? :) Anyway. We are far from legalistic about our family worship. We prioritize it most of the time. But sometimes, there are other activities that go on (fellowship groups, church choir, even having friends over for dinner, etc) that run right into bedtime – so we skip it. No biggie. God isn’t keeping a tally on us.
But like I said, we prioritize it most days. It’s just part of our evening routine. We only have one child on earth, and he is 17 months, and he looooooves family worship time. He loves sitting on the couch between Mommy and Daddy, settling in for the night with God’s Word. Daddy reads Scripture (we’re going through 1 Samuel currently), and then we sing a few hymns/psalms, and then we pray. Our son loves it, participates in his own small way, and expects it. He will grow up with this being normal. And as our family changes through time, our family worship very well may look different. But we hope it always remains a wonderful time of fellowship, honoring to the Lord, and a training tool for the kids as well as ourselves.
So WHY do we do it… it is a good habit to start/end the day with a type of formal worship. All of our lives are an act of worship, and yet God requires special forms of worship at different times. We each have our own personal time of learning and worship; then we have family worship; and then weekly we have a covenant renewal worship service in the corporate sense. All of these aspects are desired by God, honoring to Him, teaching us & our children, and an example to the Church and watching world.
Very much looking forward to your follow-up post. :)

By: Georgia Girl

Georgia Girl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:43:22 +0000

Hi…I am very puzzled by the title of the picture. What exactly did you intend by the title?

By: Desiring Virtue

Desiring Virtue — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:05:02 +0000

Family worship has been something that we have desired and implemented in our family. Not because we want to be like other Christians (… I mean how many other “Christians” do family worship anyway), and not out of pride, but out of a desire to put Christ at the center of our family life, to lift him high in our own minds and one day in our children’s minds, to have a focused time of training our children, and to be a light to a dark world. Our desire is for our family to be a worshipful family and that takes being intentional.
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